The execution of Guy Fawkes
31st January 1606
The execution of Guy Fawkes on 31 January 1606, aged just 35. He avoided the agony of being drawn and quartered when – by either jumping to his death or from a faulty rope – his neck was broken upon being hung and he died quickly
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